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Police Blame Video Games For 2-Year-Old Stabbing 5-Month-Old
from the evidence? dept
It seems that whenever there's any kind of violence involving kids, someone rushes to blame video games. Steve L points us to the latest such case, where it's taken to something of an extreme. Apparently a 2-year-old boy stabbed his 5-month-old brother with a knife. It sounds like he didn't do much damage, but police immediately claimed that violent video games owned by a much older teenaged brother "may have played a role." The only problem? The 2-year-old neither plays the games nor watches his older brother playing them. But, why not blame the video games?
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Kids with games
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of course it was the games
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Before video-games
Its common sense that babies shouldn't play with knifes.
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Really?
He was probably banging around like 2 year olds are wont to do and his retard parents left a knife out.
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FFS!
Can't the parents be charged with negligence for letting their 2yr old child have a knife.
I feel a scream coming on!
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No doubt they'll petition the court to try the 2 yr old as an adult.
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Re: FFS!
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Er?
Again, to understand:
1. a 2 year old was allowed access to a knife sharp enough to be considered dangerous
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2. a 2 year old and 5 month old were under so little supervision that the 2 year old was allowed to do any kind of stabbing with this knife that he had access to
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3. we're blaming video games.
....I'm fucking speechless.
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Of course that, for a 2 year old, that picks everything up and starts trashing about... dumbass parents for leaving a knife within reach!
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What qualifications do cops have to say what goes through the mind of a 2 year old? None.
Why should we give their conclusions any credit? We should not.
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Knife
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And while you're at it, make it so that they are shamed in such a way that other PDs see it and realize that they'll be shamed if they try to pull some asinine asshattery like this as well.
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It is ridiculous to blame a video game but it should be questioned where the toddler learned to stab.
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You're 2.5 year old is a super human and a threat to the establishment. A car has been sent.
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Blame...
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There, found a link to their contact information. Contacting the city right now to see if I can get an email address for the chief of police.
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Video Games are EVIL!!!!!
Video Games are the cause of any violent behavior, and should be taken into the street and burned. Every last one of them.
Then and only then will our children be completely SAFE.
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The parents are good christians who love their children. They were all playing a family friendly board game together in the front room (it was "family togetherness night") when the 2 year old excused himself to go get a glass of water from the kitchen, where he obtained the knife.
Then, using advanced CQC techniques picked up from violent computer games, he fought his way through his parents as they desperately tried to stop him and mercilessly attacked his little brother.
So you can see, no blame can be assigned to the parents here. It is all the fault of violent video games. If only we had listened to Jack Thompson!
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Of COURSE videogames are to blame!
Someone call FOX News. Get Jack Thompson as an expert witness.
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Is anyone impressed by spelling natzis? Opps I speled dat wong
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Conversely:
If it is common practice for knives to be kept in the kitchen, what kind of person keeps knives at a computer desk with unattended kids?
Blame is no more the fault of the movie industry than it is the fault of the Police for not stopping the stabbing. It is the parents duty to ensure the safety of their children. That being said, accidents do happen, in the video everyone seems on the up and up. I'm just glad everyone is OK. Praise God!
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it was elvis' hips!
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This site maintains fairly intelligent discourse and commentary, and so jabs at your shortfallings are within the field of fair play. When you fail to properly compose your thoughts, it reflects poorly on the community. Bearing that in mind, I will ask that you proofread your comments. If you refuse, I will send a two year old to your house.
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Elvis is innocent
or it was the video game. Either alternative is equally ridiculous
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Oy
You'd be amazed at what they're teaching these kids today.
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With knives and a copy of Grand Theft Auto.
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Yes! In the late '40s, I became a knife wielding assailant at the age of three or four with the encouragement of older neighborhood kids. Using a tiny folding knife which you could get in a penny gum-ball machine at the time, given me by the conspirators, I attacked the hood bully, stabbing him in the left biceps. I doubt I held anything that could be considered malice toward this individual and you'd probably have to chalk the attack up to peer pressure of sorts though I wasn't old enough to understand the concept. Got a stern talking to from Mom and Dad and was grounded for several days, as I recall. Imagine how knives in gum-ball machines would go over today.
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don't blame the game
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There are two things at work here, as I see it. First, the kid was 2. Set aside all talk of consequential awareness and long-term memory for a moment, and consider fine motor skills in children. If you've ever seen a toddler with a crayon, you know that when they draw, their hand movements when holding an implement are very jerky and could easily be termed "stabbing motions". Movements toward their bodies are smoother, such as feeding themselves, but still nowhere within the arena of precise. Movements away from them, or toward another person/object, are pretty sketchy, as they don't have the experience or muscle memory to gauge the depth and use implements with much finesse. I think it's a great stretch to imagine any malice on the part of the child, rather than to say that this kid had a sharp object and probably didn't have the muscle control to move it delicately or precisely. I'd wager that a pencil could have done similar damage, and would not have garnered the comments about video games.
Second, you have a society that likes to blame and sensationalize, and forgets that kids get in trouble all the time without the help of external influences. I'm not all that old, but I recall that cuts, bruises, and stitches were fairly common when I was young, and no one called the police and the newspaper when my brothers and I threw stones at each other and I ended up with a cut on my forehead. Surely no one blamed Ikari Warriors and immediately associated our skirmish as mimicking grenade-tossing insurgents.
I remember the coolest kid in my grade school. He showed up nearly every week with a new minor injury and a new story to tell about how he got it. Once upon a time we allowed children to play, and to play rough. It taught them that sharp things cut, that flaming things burn, and a host of other lessons. I sure as hell miss those days.
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Think About It
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Further, if Parents A and B leave irresponsible teen kid C home with lil chitlins D and E, there should still be a value for F (F = which federal pen the parents are locked up in FOR BEING AND RAISING FUCKING MORONS GODDAMIT.....ahem, sorry)?
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what games do 2 year olds play?
These police officers are deluded. How do they figure that video games are to blame for this? Do they think this 2 year old played Grand Theft Auto or something?
Or would they blame the Iphone (with their baby-shake app)?
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Really? I always thought cops had minds akin to a 2 year old's...
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Oh won't somebody, anybody please THINK OF THE KIDS? *sniff*
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Blaming it on a video game is going way too far.
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Blame bad guitar playing on guitar hero
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